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Caroline Korah
Work Department
Children law
Position
Caroline, a partner in family law at Vardags, specialises exclusively in family law and most notably on all aspects of children law. Sensitive and tenacious with trilingual capacity, Caroline is well-versed in domestic and international disputes, with particular experience in cross-border disputes. Her expertise spans widely from child arrangements and relocation matters to parental child abduction (Hague and non-Hague), foreign orders, injunctions and protection orders. Coined a ‘rising star’ in her field, Caroline is renowned for her straight-talking, empathetic and unpretentious approach as a lawyer.
Career
Caroline joined Vardags in 2021, having first qualified and worked at a leading London specialist Family law firm in the award-winning Children Department headed by the late Anne Marie Hutchinson OBE, QC (Hon). Whilst there, Caroline worked for HNW individuals across a whole spectrum of children cases, including the first case to make use of the 1996 Hague Convention for child abduction in England and Russia.
Caroline also undertook a secondment at The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) in Hong Kong in 2018. She has also twice served as a Rapporteur for the 2nd and triennial International Family Law and Practice Conferences. Caroline has been a Commissioner of Oaths for Quebec, Canada, since 2010.
Recent reported cases include:
- HX v A Local authority and Ors (Application to Revoke Adoption Order) [2020] EWHC 1287 (Fam)
- MG v JH [2018] EWHC 3477 (Fam)
- Re D and Others (Children) [2017] EWHC 284 (Fam)
- In the Matter of D (Children) (Child Abduction: Practice) [2016] EWHC 504 (Fam)
- J (Children) [2015] EWCA Civ 1019
- Re C-W (A Child) [2015] EWCA Civ 1272
- Neustadt v Neustadt (Child Abduction) [2014] EWHC 4307
- LC v RRL & Ors [2014] EWFC 8
- Cambra v Jones and Palacin [2014] EWHC 913 (Fam)
- Cambra v Jones and Palacin[2014] EWHC 2264 (Fam)
- LC (Children) and LC (Children) (No. 2) [2014] UKSC 1
- LC (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1058
- LCG v RL [2013] EWHC 1383 (Fam)
- O v O [2013] EWHC 2970 (Fam)
- Re FT and NT (Children)[2013] EWHC 850 (Fam)
- AI v MT (Alternative Dispute Resolution) [2013] EWHC 3954 (Fam)
Languages
Caroline speaks fluent French and Spanish.
Education
Caroline initially studied Civil Law at l’Université de Montréal, Québec, and later obtained a First-Class Honours degree in Law from the University of Westminster. She went on to complete her LPC qualifications at The University of Law, London.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Next Generation Partners)‘Both the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari of the family law world‘, Vardags stands out for its handling of ‘the most complex and difficult of cases‘. Firm founder and team head Ayesha Vardag
, an ‘extremely intelligent lawyer’ valued for her ‘wise insights and clever strategies‘, often supports ultra-high-net-worth clients in complex financial disputes. Simon McKirgan is a go-to for difficult cases, including jurisdiction disputes. The children team is headed up by Caroline Korah, who is ‘the perfect balance of empathetic and tough’ and experienced in both domestic and international matters. David Lister joined the team from Rayden Solicitors in July 2023, and is ‘a stalwart and legend in the field‘, while the group gained Robert Hines in November 2023, who is ‘a brilliant and gifted lawyer’, from Mishcon de Reya LLP. Antonia Barker and Lois Rogers departed the team in August 2023 to Hamblin Family Law LLP and Ribet Myles, respectively.